NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
TO LET
GENTLEMAN can have Board and Residence in Private House, Kowloon. ROOM with Private Bath and Verandah, nicely situated.
Apply to
KOWLOON, Care of " Daily Press" Ofoe. Hongkong, 21st August, 1915.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEER.
(879
FROM CALCUTTA, RANGOON, PENANG
AND SINGAPORE.
THE Steamship
"JAPAN,"
baving arrived from the above Porta, Consigneam of Cargo ars hereby informed that their Goods will be delivered from alongside.
Cargo impoling the discharge will be landea at once, at Consignous risk and
· GEPONIDO.
Cargo remaining on board on the 23rd inst, at Noon., will be landed at Consignses" risk and expossė.
Consignees of Cargo from Singapore and PENANG are requested to take IMMEDIATE delivery of their Goods from alongside, such Cargo Impeding the discharge of the Vessel will bo lauded and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.
No Fire Insurance Kas been effected.- Bill of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned.
DAVID SASSOON & Co., LTD.,
A genta
Hongkong, 20th August, 1915.
WARNIN◊.
“LE PETIT CHAT” - SAVOX:
EXTRA FIN
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("Car" Manx BRIND OF PERFUSED SOAP),
ESSRS. C. FERBIER & Co., the
PUBLIC COMPANIES
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21ør, 1915.
HE DIVIDEND DECLARED for the Half Year ending 30th Juno, 1915, at the Bate of TWO POUNDS THREE BHILLINGS STERLING per Bharo, is Payable on and after MONDAY. the 16th day of August, Current, of the Ofless of the Corporation. where Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants.
By Order of the Court of Director,
N. J. STABB,
Chief Manager, Hongkong, 14th August, 1915.
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HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LTD.
NOTICE.
Ior the Articles of cation the General Managers have This Day declared an INTERIM DIVIDEND for the half-year ended 30th June, 1915, of TWO DOLLÁRS PER SHARE.
“N Accordance with the Provisions of No.
DIVIDEND WARRANTS may be obtained on application at the Office of the Company on and after TUESDAY, 24th Instant.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 12th to 23rd instant, both days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.,
Genera! Mausgers. Hongkong, 9th August, 1975.
HOUSES TO LET
TO LET.
NORMAN COTTAGE, No-a, Potok Road,
sion.
GOOD ROOMS Immediate posses
INTIMATION
Apply
PEROY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING. Hongkong, 20th August, 1915.
FOR
[870
THE
TO LET.
HARPERVILLE, Garden Road, SEVEN ROOMS, Very Large Dining Room, immediate possesion, house in excellent order. Tennis Court and Garden.
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MORNING
PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING. Hongkong, 20th August, 1915.
(676
AFTER
THE
NIGHT
BEFORE
F
TO LET-FURNISHED.
OREBANK EAST, No. 188, THE PEAK.
Tennis Court. From Septimber. Apply...
No. 18, Care of "Daily Press" Ofos Hongkong, 18th August, 1915.
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OFFICES TO LET
No
[849
【O, 6, DES VŒŒUXTM ROAD, 1st Floor.
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JOSEPH BROTHERS. Hongkong, 17th Augart, 1915.
(807
HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE.
ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY MEETING
of SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Company's Hotel on SATURDAY, the 28th August. 1910, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts of the Company to the 30th June, 1915, with the Report of the Directors, and to brought before the Menting-
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 21st to 28th August, 1915, both data inclusive.
M that may well known Perfumed Soap, have certained that Sosp made by other Manufacturers is being placed on the market under a mark which 8. prose imitation of the registered L Paris CHAT" mark belonging to Messi, C. FERRIER & Co. Sach naDufacturers are warned that Mesars. C. FERRIER & Co. will not hesitate to take all steps open to them to ziop sach fraudulent competition,
And all merchants and shopkeeper are warned that steps will be taken without notice against any persons found selling or in the possession of soap bearing a mack which is an imitation of LE PETIT CHAT "mark of Messrs. C. PERRINE 4 Co. The sole representative of Mosura. C. FERRIER & Co. in Hongkong is Mr. B. Nzons! Republique, Marseilles.
WANTED.
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JAPANESE 31 years of age, Married, Seeks position as General Work Assistant.
or Bookkeeper. Experience on Accounting Staff of Bank and as Clerk of Shipyard. ~ Full investigation courted. Balary to be settled after trial.
Write-
O. SAKAI, `No. 11, D'Agaflar Street. Hongkong, 18th August, 1918, [871
Q.
NOTICE.
NY EUROPEAN, Non-Asiatic or Indian desiring to leave the Colony should apply
in writing for permission to do so to the Captain SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, at lemet 48 hours before the intended hour of departure, giving name, nationality, age, sex, haighi and occupation of the applicant, and stating The noma of the steamer or other vessel or the hour of the train by which the applicant wishes to leave. Applicants should apply in person for their passes at the CENTRAL POLION STATION between the hours of 9'a N, to 1 P.M. and 3 PM to 4 PM. daily.
Hongkong, 10th July, 1915,
BLADES
1788
By Order of the Board,
J. H, TAGGART,
Acting Secretary. Hongkong, 16th August, 1915.
NEW CARTRIDGES.
BI Popular Eglise
TO LET.
building known as "STONEHENGE," ROM 1st September, that part of the
No. 5, Robinson Road, now in the cccnpation of the Nippon Yassa Kaisha, particularly suitable for a Boarding House.
Apply 10-
DAVID SASSOON & Co., LTD. Hongkong, 10th August, 1916.
TO LET.
TAKE
surface it is evident that these conclu- sions are based on a misconception. In the first place the Emperors of Japan for the last thres hundred years have not held the supreme power.
Before the Restoration they were more puppet- Emperors, sanctified, if you will, bat absolutely without power. The Resto- ration nominally restored the power to the hands of the Emperors, but actually transferred it from the hands of the chiefs of one clan to the hands of the
chiefs of other clans. It is a remarkable point in the history of Japan that, the men who have actually ruled the country, whether as Emperors or as representatives of the Emperors, hava been few and far between. It is the men behind the Throne or as the Japanese express it,
behind the curtain," who have exer- cised the real power. Japan's failure to produce a succession of great states Inen Was ሀብ doubt the cause of this curious stäte
affairs. On the Restoration the cominal power was trans- Farred from the Torceryx famly to the Emperor, but the actual power, as before, rested in the hands of the great feudal lords and their retainers, those who
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Inspection Invited.
WM. SCHMIDT & Co.
Hongkong, 4th February, 1915.
1609
NE THREE-ROOMED FLAT, niso Good
Office and Godown accommodation. Apply
T. E GRIFFITH, LTD., Canton,
[708
Canton, 28th July, 1915.
TO LET.
FROM 1st September next, donirable BIX and EIGHT ROOMED Residences in Broadwood and Wong-Nal-Chang Roads, the latter ommanding a Fine View of the Babe Course,
For terms and particulas, apply to---.
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY Co., LTD. Hongkong, 18th July, 1915. (767
TO LET.
HOUSES I LYEEMOON VILLAS and
TORRES BUILDINGS, ready for
FRENCH LESSONS occupation from the 1st August next.
Apply to
G. MOUSSION.
16, MORRISON HILL ROAD.
SPANISH DOMINICAN PROCURATION, Hongkong, 16th July, 1915.
(50)
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NOTICE.
DRINK
ALLSOPP'S
BRITISH PILSENER
BEER.
GIVE YOUR RAZOR A
SAVE
NEW LEASE OF LIFE.
YOUR
Remember we do all kinds of
grinding and edge making. We
SOLE AGENTS :
76 Ch.
per
Dozou.
Pocket Knives, Surgical Instru - ments, sto.
CALDBECK,
sharpen Clippers, Sheary, Scissors,
WE SHARPEN EVERYTHING.
CAMPBELL, MOOBE & Co., LTD. MACGREGOR&C.
Hongkong, 22nd July, 1915.
JUST RECEIVED:
(667
SEEDS.
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No. 11a, CAINE ROAD, Hongkong. Hoogkong, 18th August, 1918,"
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WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
15 Queen's Road Central.
TO LET,
up
FFICES in ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING
OFFICER Overlooking Harbour immediate posscenion.
Apply to
SHAWAN, TOMES & Co-
(39 Hongkong, 3rd December, 1914.
TO LET.
HOUSE
A Kowloon
Apply
in Knutsford Terrace
APHTE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.
MENT & AGENCY Co, Leo. Hongkong, 1st March, 1915
TO LET A HOUSE Observatory Vilav
Kowloon,
Apply to
ARBATOON V. APCAR & Co. Hongkong, 8th July, 1915.
[789
TO LET.
WHOLE or PART SHOP in Chater
Apply
CLARK & Co. Opticians.
[705
Hongkong, 29th June,11915.
TO LET.
ND FLOOR No. 1, DUDDELL STRERT,
for Office or Dwellings. Apply within. Hongkong, 1st June, 1915.
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SOLD ONLY BY
A mait for Europe via Siberia closer co-day at 5 p.m.
Some parts of the native city of Canton are again flooded to a depth of ton or twelve inches.
Mr. Justice Gompertz, who has been taking a holiday in Canada, is expected back on Sunday werk.
Mr. L. M. Woodward, Judicial Commis signer, F.M.S., has been appointed Senior Paiste Judge, Straits Settlements."
The Bishop of Victoria will to- morrow (Sunday) conduct the Evening Service at the Peak Church at 6.30 p.m.
On Monday next. August 23rd, the Bishop and Mrs Lander will be At Home" at the Eyrie. 3, The Peak, to mis- sionaries, of whom there are a largo sumber spending their holidays; in the Colony.
The Journee of the 75, organized in Indo- China on July 14th East, no assist the vic-. time of the war in France, has produced in Cochin-China alòng nore than one hundred thousand dollars, of, which Saigon contri- buted twenty thousand..
Because the Chinese in America, are of the TOKUGAWA · régime, naturally boycotting the Japanese steamship lines, obtaining the highest power. The posi- the Titan of the Blue Funnel Line, which tion of the EMPEROR of Japan may, thus arrived at Yokohama from Vancouver re- be compared to that of the TSAR of Russia, cently, carried 530 Chinese passengers, re- who also occupies a nominal, semi-divité | ports the Japan - Advertiser ̧ ̧ Most of position, with the real power in the these are men who have made their" for hands of the Great Lords. In Japan the Tune in the United States and in Canada representatives of these great lords are
and are returning to China to live in gars to-day the Elder Statesmen, and to
for the rest of their lives. They refysed regard their disappearance as probable, or to take any of the N.Y.K. or 0.8.K. bears +vei beneficial, is to disregard the historic that sailed from north-western ports ani position. The Elder Statesmen have nɔ
wailed. for passage on the Tilan. legal position in the Japanese Constitu tion, just as the English Cabinet has no. legal standing, but to suggest that the EMPEROR Can govern without the Elder Statesmen is as much as to suggest that King GEORGE has the power to govern without his Cabinet The present Elder Statesinen, who do not form a Privy Council, which is quite a distinct body
The Straits Times understands that Dr. Lim Boon Keng has accepted the invitation of His Excellency the Governor to succeed Mr. Tan Jiak Kim, C.M.G., as representi-
tive of the Chinese community in the Legis
Jative Council
He has already had eight
or nine years on the Council, and upon his resignation, having been responsible Fr. many measures for the welfare of the
S. WATSON will pass in the course of years, but their Straits Chinese, he was thanked for bis
& CO., LTD.,
HONGKONG AND CHINA.
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BIRTH. BRIDGER-On the 20th August, at 6. Babington Path, to Mr. and Mrs. R. L, BRIDGER, a daughter. [878
AGRADECIMENTO. Francisco Maria Poula de Graça c irmaos, José Maria Roque de Oraça Owrio o esposa, e Filomeno María do Graça Ozorio e irma, extremamente reconhecidos. agradecem aos seis parenter e pessoas do suas relacoes que acompan
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enfermo durante a sua longa doença,
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HONGKONG OFFion: 104, Dea Vœur Road C. LONDON. OFFICE: 181, FLEET STRET, E.O.
plaes will be taken by others, As for the Japanese Cabinet, so many Ministries have come and so many Ministries have gone since the Constitution was promnl- gated, that it is difficult to understand how Mr. BLYTHE was deceived into attach- ing so unieh importance to it; while the very hate of Diet should have put hint An his guard against regarding that organisation, as a law-making body. It is true it makes laws, hût it makes the laws which the Cabinet instruets it to mak, and behind the Cabinet are the Ekler Statesmen. When attempts to take an independent line it is either suspended until is adopts a better frame of mind, or, as an extreme vieasure,
services by the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Since that time, he has devoted his attention to reform an-to educational matters.
། AT THE SUMMARY, COURT.
Several small cases concerning Euro pran firms were mentioned in the Summary Court yesterday.
services rendered.
Mr. L. D'Almada e Castro sued Parr & Company, Limited for the sum of $206, being the amount due for professional Mr. Haywood told his the Diellordship that there had been a settlement, the defendant going to plaintiff's office and paying.
baranı enterro do seu estremecido a message from the EMPEROR, commanding sobrinho, irma e cunhado Francisco the House to adopt the measure proposed Xavier de Graça Ozorio.
by the Cabinet, is obtained. As to dis obey the Imperial orders would be rank blasphemy, this measure is sufficient to quell all opposition. The Diet is thus merely a deliberative assembly, with a flavouring of legislative rights. The body which it most resembles is the Prussian Diet, on which organisation. it was framed, but its powers are 'oven' limited. The fact that it has no power is sufficient to show what position ib takes among the national assed- blies of the world. Japan's political system mary
thus he said to
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, Avover 2187, 1916.
GOVERNMENT IN JAPAN.
more
MR. SAMUEL G. BLYTHE, an Americansist of a deliberative assembly with journalist who recently visited Japan, nominal legislative powers, a Cabinet of Ministers who occupy the place of high has been writing in American papers on
officials of their respective Departments, the Japanese Constitution, im terms
and are only responsible to the EMPEROR, which will astonish all those who have
a semi-secret and unacknowledged council watched its working for the last twenty years. He regards the Elder Statemen, directors, and the EMPEROR as the FIQUE-ROOMED FLATS in Hanoi Bond, whom he speaks of as farming the Privy nominal ruler.
Kowloon, and MAY ROAD, Hongkong,
Council, as the chief obstacle to a fairly
Fo
TO LET.
with possession in October
ます。
No doubt there are
in these bodies the germa of a constitu- English Baths and Kitchen Hanges, Hot and democratic goveramcat, and apparently tional government, but they cannot be Cold Water, Electric Light First Claer Modern Appointments throughout, including accepts the opinion of certain Japanese considered as forming one yet. They are Water Carriage System.
that the death of the present Elder the old feudal forms of government in a PENYRHEW," Minden Bow, Kowloon,
Statesmen will rid the country of u modern guise. 6-Roomed House, with Tennis Court.
The political sense in incubus. On their death, he thinks, Japan is as yet so little developed that Japan will be a constitutional monarchy it may, moreover, he considered doubtful and reasonably democratic, with the whether a more democratic form of gov- legislative assembly and the Cabinet ernment would benefit the country.
2, MINDEN VILLAS, Kowloon, 5-Roomed House with Tenuta Court."
FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES in Garden Terraos and Balisbury Avenue, Kowloon, FLATE in Nathan Bond. Kowloon.
Judgment was given against Tong Sing & Company who were sued by the Geners, Electric Company, Limited, of China, for the sum of $380.
The Robert Dollar Company sued Kwong Fook Cherng for the sum of $58.51. The hearing was adjourned.
G. A. Hastings eued Wong Luk Fung for the sum of $116. Mr. Crew (of Messrs. Haktings & Mastings) said the case was settled.
bour,
MACAO NOTES. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
MACAO, August 16tb. DREDGING THE HARBOUR, The harbour authorities are greatly order to bestirring themselves in facilitate the work of dredging the har- Offices, workshops, and a foundry are to be constructed for those concerned in the work. The principal office and depository for materials will be at w house on Green Island, belonging to the Seminary. The newly purchased ing boot. arrived in the harbour the 9th. The dredger is DOW in Hongkong to undergo cortain
Every indication points to the repairs. determination of the authorities thu thoroughly carry out this important work.
A BLOW FOR THE WATER SYNDICATE.
A FLAT Hamphrey's Buildings, Kowloon doing the governing and law making. It When it is remembered how lightly the expectedly frustrated.
Apply to
KUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCİ
Co., LTD., Alexandra Buildings. Hongkong, 17th July, 1915.
(850
TO LEE,
TOUSES in CLIFTON GARDENS,
is true the EMPEROR is theoretically absolute and infallible, but as he is directed by his Cabinet, just as the KING
matter.
It seems that the well-laid plans of the Water Syndicate have been somewhat un- They cannot now secure water from the Ribeira Grande, members of the Diet regard their duties, as the proprietor of that spring he how quickly political parties are formedlet" the waters to a certain busies and dissolved, how easily members drift man, an outsider, who, it would seem, from one political party to another, and is seeking to obtain a monopoly, and to how listlessly the public regard political should belong to the Colony itself, and this dictate his own terms. The water supply issues, some hisitation must be felt at placing more power in the hands of any is a grave danger as well as public What is really wanted is a national assembly. No doubt the present system has its disadvantages; no doubt Proper and up-to-date water supply Japanese diplomacy is more the diplo system. There are many good watersheds. around Macao, and expert advice should macy of the "big stick" than anything be taken for the construction of a else, and that her commercial policy 13
reservoir. hopelessly antiquated and unsuited to her needs: granting all this, it may still be
A particular fish called by the Chinese argued that these disadvantages are better than the mob rule which would follow kaipon, which abounds in Macao waters any sudden widening of the legislative Just now, is extremely dangerous for THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST conclusions may appear reasonable, but powers of the people a mob rule which human consumption.
A family of 14. would plunge Japan Into the chaoticons were recently poisoned, but with condition of Mexico.
the exception of one, all, fortunately, have partially recovered,
H° Conduli Bosd,
OFFICES, facing the Harbour botworn the Hongkong Club and Port Onos.
68, THE PHAX "THE RETREAT” 21, WONG-NEI-CHONG ROAD, GODOWNS, New Frayn, Kennedy Town, GODOWNS, sú Wazahni Bod Apply, sto
"MENT & AGENCY (0, LED, Hongkong, Irt April, 1715,
of England is directed by his Ministry, he practically governs in just the same way as the KING of England or the Pae. SIDENT of the United States, Moreover, the Japanese statesmen of later days have seen to it that the EMPEROR has adequate counsel, instruction and direction. those not acquainted with the history of Japan, and having but an outside view of Japan's politics, Mr. BLYTH'
To
to those who look deeper than the mere
A POISONOUS FIRA.